Amy Sedaris & Paul Reiser

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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We're replaying two recent favorites this week: first up, Amy Sedaris! Amy's made a career playing characters - and we say this with absolutely *zero* shade intended - people who are kind of grotesque and weird. The weirder and grosser the better - take Jerri Blank on Strangers with Candy or Mimi Kanasis on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, too. But on her show, At Home with Amy Sedaris, Amy pretty much plays herself. She talks with Jesse about how that's a transition out of her normal comfort zone. Also discussed: rabbits, monkfish, and girl scout badges! Then, Paul Reiser - the legendary standup and actor. You've seen him on Mad About You, Red Oaks and Whiplash and more. He also created the Hulu show There's Johnny. It takes place in the early 70s, behind the scene of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Reiser knew Carson about as well as anybody could and dishes on what it was like appearing on his show almost a dozen times.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:13.4	I'm Jesse Thorn. Amy Sederis has made a career playing people who, how do I say this without
0:18.6	coming off me, and people who are kind of grotesque and weird. There's Jerry Blank from
0:23.5	Strangers with Candy, a middle-aged high school student with an enormous overbite, very
0:28.3	weird highlights and some really intense mom genes, or Mimi Canassas, the crazed social
0:35.3	light on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. But have you seen Amy Sederis' latest show? It's
0:40.4	called At Home with Amy Sederis. It's kind of a fun house mirror version of a home cooking
0:45.1	and crafting show. And for the first time, Amy Sederis plays Amy Sederis in most of the
0:50.0	show, which is definitely not Amy Sederis' comfort zone.
0:54.6	Because I have more fun playing characters, and I like playing ugly characters. My favorite
0:58.3	episode, one of my favorite episodes is entertaining for peanuts, where it's cooking on a budget.
1:03.6	And I say that I do my own hair and makeup, and I look really good, really scary. I look
1:08.2	horrible, and it opens up that way, and I could just look at myself forever. And then I
1:13.0	get to play a hobo, and this Southern woman, Patty Hogg, and this other character I play
1:16.9	with my nose taped up. And then I also like the holiday episode, because I lose a tooth,
1:22.0	and I get to have a blacked out mouth.
1:24.5	It's Bullseye.
1:26.3	Coming up more on At Home with Amy Sederis, she'll tell me about how the show came together.
1:37.2	We'll talk crafts, and what it's like to be on set with an enormous, dead, monkfish.
1:42.7	I know. It was gigantic. It was like, and they were sitting out there for a while. The
1:47.5	sets did not smell pretty that day.
1:49.5	Plus, nicer stuff, like her bunny rabbit.
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